Author Event with Marie Lu/Stars and Smoke

Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an in-person event and signing line with author Marie Lu, to celebrate the release of Stars and Smoke on Tuesday, April 4th at 7pm at Meiley-Swallow Hall on the campus of North Central College. She will be in conversation with Anderson's Bookseller and BookToker (@booksdogsandcoffee) Sammie Virella. After their talk, Marie will take audience questions, followed by a signing line where she will personalize and take photos with attendees if they wish!

This event will be held at Meiley-Swallow Hall on the campus of North Central College (31 South Ellsworth Street), and pre-registration is required as space is limited. For this event, each ticket admits one adult and one child.

More about Stars and Smoke:

The Hating Game meets Mission: Impossible in this smoldering new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu about a superstar tapped to become a secret agent and the reluctant young spy assigned to be his partner.

Meet Winter Young – rookie backup dancer turned global pop phenomenon. His star power has smashed records, selling out stadiums from LA to London. Now he’s bringing his swoonworthy assets to a whole new arena...

Infamous criminal tycoon Eli Morrison has just one weakness – his daughter, Penelope. And Penelope has just one wish for her nineteenth birthday – a private concert with Winter Young. When covert ops organization The Panacea Group approaches Winter with this once-in-a-lifetime chance to infiltrate Morrison’s inner circle, Winter must use his fame, cunning, and charisma to pull it off – only he won’t be on his own.

Posing as Winter’s bodyguard is the fiery Sydney Cossette, Panacea’s youngest spy. Sydney may be the only person alive impervious to Winter's charms, but as the mission brings them closer, she's forced to admit there's more to this A-lister than slick dance moves and a handsome face. Panacea's unlikeliest partners just might become its biggest heroes – and maybe even more – if they can survive each other first.  

About the Author: 

Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the Legend series, The Young Elites trilogy, the Warcross series. the Skyhunter series, Batman: Nightwalker, and The Kingdom of Back. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry, where she worked as an artist. A full-time writer, she spends her spare hours reading, drawing, playing games, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in the traffic-jam capital, Los Angeles, with her illustrator/author husband, Primo Gallanosa, and their son.

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